CVE-2004-1689 Information

Description

sudoedit (aka sudo -e) in sudo 1.6.8 opens a temporary file with root privileges which allows local users to read arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the temporary file before quitting sudoedit.

Reference

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109537972929201&w=2 http://packetstormsecurity.nl/0409-exploits/sudoedit.txt http://secunia.com/advisories/12596 http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/o-219.shtml http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/424358 http://www.osvdb.org/10023 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11204 http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/alerts/sudoedit.html https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17424